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Kasada. This name will probably mean little to business travellers used to the big international hotel chains. However, its activities are not insignificant for professionals who regularly travel to Africa. Launched in 2019, this investment platform is backed by Accor and the sovereign wealth fund of...

Are we witnessing a reversal in the jurisprudence of hotel groups concerning their activities in Russia? Shortly after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, most of them announced the suspension of their future developments and investments in Russia. Some, such as Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Marriott and Radisson, also decided to close...

In August, the Accor group will open an ibis budget hotel in Airport City, the development adjacent to Manchester airport. A Holiday Inn will follow in September. These two openings will mark the birth of the District Hotel, the accommodation component of the aerotropolis currently being developed on the...

Pursuing its idea of enhanced hospitality, Accor is extending the scope of its ALL loyalty programme to include urban mobility. Using the ALL application or the all.com website, members of the programme can now book a taxi or VTC and earn points by paying for their journey with a credit card, or even by...

Accor will soon be offering two extended-stay hotels in Istanbul under the Mövenpick Living brand. At a time when the French group is gradually extending the 'extended stay' versions of its hotel brands - Novotel Living and Pullman Living, among others - the French hotelier will be adding two new addresses as part of one of the major projects currently under way...

Mercure is due to open at Tokyo Haneda airport next year. Travellers passing through the Japanese capital's closest hub - less than 20 km away, compared with almost 70 km for Narita - will find the first international chain hotel there, whereas until now the area around the airport...

Since last year, Accor's teams in Northern Europe have been bringing together their main corporate clients at the Masters of Travel, the second of which took place at the end of May in Frankfurt. Why did you decide to organise this event? Sophie Hulgard - Covid has accelerated certain trends, the needs...

The rise of coworking in Accor hotels is not limited to Europe, where almost 400 hotels already have Wojo spaces. Also deployed in 150 establishments in Latin America, their expansion will now continue on the African continent. "This is a strategic step in our development", says Stéphane Bensimon, CEO of Wojo. At this...

The luxurious Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor and the Novotel Budapest Centrum may not target the same clientele, but they share a rich past, the Accor group as chaperone and, above all, the same recent history. Closed for extensive refurbishment work, they have seen little or none of the dark days...

We will therefore have to wait until 2025 to see Fairmont take its first steps on the Japanese market. The Fairmont Tokyo project was unveiled by the Accor group at the end of May. While information about this first establishment remains sketchy, we do know that it will be a 219-key address. These will be located on the upper floors...

Almost as fast as a Novak Djokovic serve or a Rafael Nadal passing shot. No sooner had Wojo announced an ephemeral coworking space at Roland Garros, during the tournament's qualifying rounds, than it was booked up in a matter of hours. In partnership with the tournament organisers and the ALL loyalty programme, Wojo has set up a...

Lifestyle hotels seem to be finding an increasingly natural place in the La Défense business district. CitizenM was a forerunner, setting up in 2017 near the Grande Arche and La Défense Arena, and will soon be joined, in mid-June, by an Okko hotel. At the other end of the district, towards...

Business travellers to Central Asia will find a number of new places to stay as they wander around. Among them, a Novotel Living establishment has just opened its doors in Almaty. Its opening had been announced since the end of last year, with the opening of an ibis Almaty Jetisu in the former capital of...

Accor and its lifestyle hotel subsidiary Ennismore have signed their joint entry into the Amsterdam-Noord district with the opening of a Mercure hotel and a Tribe, a new brand whose lifestyle spirit is in line with the evolution of the northern part of the Dutch capital. Long occupied by the NDSM shipyards, this district, separated from the city centre...

As the Queen of England celebrates her platinum jubilee in a few weeks' time, one of the former jewels in the British crown, the ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2, is preparing to open a new chapter in her history. Retired from cruising in 2008 and moored since then in Dubai's Rashid Port, the prestigious ship has been...

The results for the first quarter of 2022 presented by Accor confirm the relatively limited effect of the Omicron variant on the recovery in hotel activity seen since last summer. Like most players in the sector, the French group has seen a steady recovery in revenue per room (RevPAR) since the second quarter of 2021. And the damage caused...

With long-haul travel still at half-mast and business travel at a moderato tempo, the Pullman Paris Montparnasse would no doubt have been satisfied with a more favourable context for its return to business. However, the management of this 900-room hotel, which caters for international customers and corporate events, doesn't seem to be...

After the Parc des Princes at the end of the summer of 2021, Wojo is moving into a new sporting mecca by setting up a temporary coworking centre at Roland-Garros from Monday 16 to Friday 20 May 2022, during the qualifying rounds of the prestigious Grand Slam tournament. To carry out this operation, the workspace specialist...

Accor is expanding the range of experiences available to members of its ALL-Accor Live Limitless loyalty programme. Through a partnership with the digital platform Fever, which specialises in entertainment and leisure, the hotel group's loyal customers will be able to redeem their points - or pay for them by credit card - to book a...

European business travellers will be able to discover the lifestyle and luxury spirit of the SLS brand from the second half of 2024. Originally launched by the American group SBE, and integrated since its acquisition by the Accor group into the Ennismore joint venture, focused on the development of contemporary brands, SLS has found its first point of call...